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Nota in Brevis
Canon Law, Tornadoes and Reprisals
May 27th marks the anniversary of the promulgation of the first official Code of Canon Law, by Benedict XV in 1917. The laborious - even Herculean - endeavour of collating the two millennia wide...
Articles
Our Lady, Help of Christians
Today is the memorial of Our Lady Help of Christians, a title that seems first to have been used by Saint John Chrysostom, patriarch of Constantinople, in 345, and invoked ever since. In the...
Reviews
Cantatas for Pentecost, Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) , composed a series of cantatas for the Church's liturgical year during his time as kappelmeister and kantor at Saint Thomas church in Leipzig, from 1723. He wrote over...
Editor's Corner
A Few Not So Good Men
Back in 2003, I argued with a priest friend over his support for proposed legislation governing reproductive technology, which would legalize, and fund, things like in vitro fertilization, bringing them under government control. He...
Nota in Brevis
Britain Votes for or Against Life
If you read this in time, join in prayer for England, about to vote, or has already voted, on this May 15th, whether to extend legal abortion right up to birth.
Our Lady of Walsingham...
Nota in Brevis
The Boy Scouts and Mounties Had A Good Run
It was good while it lasted, one last refuge for men; or, at least, boys growing into men, with all that implies:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/end-era-boy-scouts-america-officially-changes-name/
I was a guest at a couple's house recently, south of the border...
Nota in Brevis
Vatican Norms for Apparitions and Revelations
In 1978, the Vatican issued guidelines for discerning the veracity of visions and revelations. Specifically, these were issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (SCDF), and I'm still not sure...
Articles
This Sweet and Merry Month of May
On this first day of May, dedicated to Mary, in this year after the 400th anniversary year of the death of one of England's finest composers, William Byrd, we thought it fitting to post...
